Tun vs Tat - What's the difference?
tun | tat |
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
(brewing) A fermenting vat.
An old English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 252 wine gallons; equal to two pipes.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
A weight of 2,240 pounds.
An indefinite large quantity.
* (rfdate) Dryden
(archaic, humorous, or, derogatory) A drunkard.
(zoology) Any shell belonging to and allied genera; called also tun-shell.
A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
To put into tuns, or casks.
Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
(India) Gunnycloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius or jute.
(slang) A tattoo.
(intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.
As a noun tun
is doing, deeds, behaviour.As an adjective tat is
dense, thick or crowded.tun
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
- "He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,
- A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ.
Verb
- (Boyle)